Six years ago, I started speaking my recovery journey into the voice memo app on my phone. I had no idea what would become of what I called the Recover Your Soul Podcast. But as soon as it took off and people started listening, I knew it was more than downloads. It was becoming a community, a family of people affected by addiction, battling their own codependency and tendency to people please and over-give, just like me, who wanted more than what they were finding in other re

Returning to Step One- A Gentle Path Back to Yourself There is a reason that some of the most listened to episodes of the Recover Your Soul Podcast continue to be the ones connected to Al-Anon and recovery. For many of us, that is where the journey began, and it is where my journey began. It is where we first walked into a room feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and unsure of what to do next. It is where we heard something that softened us, something that helped us feel less alo

Something sacred is unfolding in my life. After more than a year of writing, reflecting, healing, and often questioning myself along the way, my memoir Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Journey of Healing from Addiction, Codependency, and People Pleasing is making its way into the world. this is not the book I thought I was writing. When I first began, I believed I was creating a book about the spiritual process that saved my life. I wanted to share the tools, the steps, the un

When I first arrived in Costa Rica, I wrote about fear, disorientation, and the old patterns that traveled with me. The nervous system on alert. The familiar stories rising when control slipped away. The realization that we do not just bring our suitcases when we travel. We bring our patterns. This reflection is what came after that unraveling. On the last day of my three weeks here, I am filled with a deep sweetness and gratitude. Something has settled. Something has comple

ready to go to Costa Rica! There are moments on our journey when we realize that we did not just pack our clothes. We packed our patterns. Our habits. Our old ways of seeing ourselves and the world. I felt this deeply as we arrived in Costa Rica. What should have been a simple arrival turned into an unexpected initiation. We could not take the small jumper plane because Rich’s nine foot surfboard was too long. To get his board to where we were going, we had to find another wa

Have you ever caught yourself trying to hold everything together —making sure the house looks perfect, smoothing over family conflicts,...

Your Soul is pure, eternal and unbroken. When I began my Soul Recovery journey, I often asked myself: what is the soul I’m trying to...

Recover Your Soul A thoughtful question from our community sparked this week’s conversation: Can I hold my loved one accountable without...

If you’ve ever found yourself emotionally drained from trying to help, fix, or manage the people in your life—you’re not alone. I lived...